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BUTTON.

No. 285,306. Patented Sept. 18, 1883.

[kava/fan UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE T. PI'ITS, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent-No. 285,306, dated September 18, 1883. Application tied Maren 29, less. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern,.-

Be itknown that I, GEORGE T. Prrrs, of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented an Improvement in Buttons, of which the following is a specication.

The nature of my invention consists in a buttonhead provided with two fixed posts,

each carrying a cross-bar set obliquely to the longitudinal axis of the button-head.

Figure l represents a side elevation of the button. Fig. 2 is a plan of the under side of the button. Fig. 3 represents the buttonhead, formed of two rectangular parts, soldered to each other by means of intervening balls. Fig. 4 is a Apartial view from the inner portion of the cuff, showing the proper position of the button-holes for the attachment or detachment of the button. the inner portion of the cuff, showing the button-holes in their normal position, with the head of the attached button represented by dotted lines.

In the accompanying drawings, A is a buttonhead, formed of ,two circular parts, a a, united to each other by means of the intervening balls B B, which are soldered between the7 adjacent sides or edges of the parts a a.

To about the center of each of the two parts a a are attached the posts C C, to the ends of which are secured the xed cross-bars D D, set

obliquely to the line of the longitudinal aXis of the button-head.

The button-head shown in Fig. 3 is formed Fig. 5 is a partial view from of two rectangular parts, a a, joined to each other by means of the connecting-balls B B B, 3 5 soldered to the adjacent sides or edges of the rectangular parts.

The button-holes b b of the cud E E are to be forcibly thrown out of line with eachother, as shown in Fig. 4, when inserting or removing the buttons, and the button-holes will thus be made to come in line with the cross-bars D D upon the fixed posts C C, so, that the cross-bars may be readily entered therein, and when the button-holes are allowed to assume their normal position in line with each other,

cross-bars arranged obliquely to the longi- 6o tudinal axis of the button-head, substantially as described.

GEORGE T. PITTS. Vitnesses:

SOCRATES ScHoLEIELD, GHAs. H. BEEDLE. 

